by Aerie » Tue May 27, 2014 12:13 pm
by heater31 » Tue May 27, 2014 12:16 pm
by Willo » Tue May 27, 2014 10:33 pm
The Hound wrote:Does anybody know what the "recommendations" are? Mergers, saca taking over curating, reduced funding to the clubs, loss of junior grades etc?
by heater31 » Tue May 27, 2014 10:42 pm
by Aerie » Tue May 27, 2014 11:12 pm
by The Old Fellow » Tue May 27, 2014 11:47 pm
by Homer J » Wed May 28, 2014 9:55 am
by smac » Wed May 28, 2014 10:40 am
by Homer J » Wed May 28, 2014 11:59 am
by Tony Clifton » Wed May 28, 2014 8:07 pm
by daysofourlives » Wed May 28, 2014 8:51 pm
Tony Clifton wrote:Why would they get rid of 14 whites? Would have thought 16 whites would go first.
by Footy Smart » Thu May 29, 2014 9:35 am
daysofourlives wrote:Tony Clifton wrote:Why would they get rid of 14 whites? Would have thought 16 whites would go first.
Yeah considering U16 is the hardest grade to have kids interested, I dont know how from one under 14 team they will then fill two U16 teams.
Maybe they are thinking the full season of U13 will sort of replace U14 white.
Considering all other competitions really struggle to fill sides at U16 level it would make sense to only have one U16 grade so that there is extra players filtering back to these clubs.
by Keyser Soze » Thu May 29, 2014 11:09 am
by heater31 » Thu May 29, 2014 11:37 am
by The Hound » Thu May 29, 2014 11:59 am
by beeroclock » Thu May 29, 2014 3:38 pm
Willo wrote:The Hound wrote:Does anybody know what the "recommendations" are? Mergers, saca taking over curating, reduced funding to the clubs, loss of junior grades etc?
Pretty good guess!!
Heard they have recommended ten clubs, no surprise there, but their mergers were bit different. Woodville and Port at Woodville, Glenelg and West Torrens at the Bay, Uni and Prospect at Uni, and Adelaide and Sturt at either Unley or Goodwood. Amazing how all the teams out North dont get touched, surely some of them are too close together! Plus the tenth team is recommended from Gawler, yet another from out there. You would think most players from Barossa League go to Northerns anyway.
Other points worth noting are:
D's to be Under 19's comp with three older players allowed.
14 Whites to go, but Ray Sutton Shield to be played all season instead of only five weeks. Both 16 Reds and Whites survive.
No One day comp, or Knockout format so less Matches, or make it Under 21, plus 20/20 on Tuesday nights.
SACA take over control of preparing pitches, more money for Coaches, better relationships with Community clubs, Umpiring fees to maybe double to get past players involved, and Country zones to be removed.
Similar points continue to be raised, with couple of different ones. Not sure what time frame they have set for sone of this stuff.
You would think Mergers for coming season would be tough to get up and going for coming season. Plus no mention of Premier League at all either!
Interesting times ahead!
by Footy Smart » Thu May 29, 2014 4:02 pm
Tony Clifton wrote:Why would they get rid of 14 whites? Would have thought 16 whites would go first.
by beeroclock » Thu May 29, 2014 4:19 pm
Keyser Soze wrote:The district clubs will never merge whilst the governing body of grade cricket is the grade cricket council made up of representatives of each club....own club interests will always prevail. The SACA is trying to gain control of this by offering up to $90k per club for coaching with the director of coaching at each club to be a SACA employee and have a set standard of coaching across the system. However isn't this already achieved by the level 2 coaching course offered by SACA, I would suspect most grade coaches have a level 2 coaching certificate? Will the grade clubs ever give up this governing power, it would place them at the mercy of SACA direction?
just some thoughts:
Why not consider the move of juniors to a Sunday comp to enable more College kids to play grade cricket would this increase numbers?
Scrap D-grade, is basically an under 19's comp now with the odd overage player. If a player is 18 or 19 and still playing D-Grade is probably not up to grade cricket standard as tough as that sounds. Would clubs agree to this as will cost $$$.
It would be interesting to see what involvement Grade clubs have with community clubs in there area, i'd say it's very minimal if not non-existent.
by heater31 » Thu May 29, 2014 4:43 pm
Footy Smart wrote:Tony Clifton wrote:Why would they get rid of 14 whites? Would have thought 16 whites would go first.
TC i would suggest this is due to the current batch of U14s transitioning to U16s for season 2014/15. By cutting the number of U14 kids this year, next year less go up to one U16 grade. Makes sense in my opinion. I am in favour of re badging the 16swhites to U15s.
Moving Juniors to Sunday doesnt work imo, would work for a few clubs but not all. Need to take into consideration: not all clubs have college kids - so they wouldnt be 'stronger', some have womens sides that play sunday, Saturday/Sunday matches and the A grade one day competition having priority.
by Footy Smart » Thu May 29, 2014 5:08 pm
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